Hopkins Research Limited was founded in 2002 by Michael Hopkins to
build upon eleven years of original research and successful results
created by ACS Consultancy. Michael remains the principal
consultant and has collected together a group of associates with
specific skills. We are a specialist organisation focused on the
application of unique statistical modelling and
global solution methods to complex, technology-based problems.
We have collaborated with world class R&D
departments in many fields, including: automotive
powertrain and
safety, aerospace, Formula One racing, banking, medicine, IT, electronics
and acoustics - with
companies based in the UK, continental Europe and the
USA.
Our motivation is that modern product and process design problems in
a wide range of seemingly unrelated fields can be put into a generic
form. This allows them to be solved with unprecedented efficiency
using advanced proprietary techniques. If your organisation works
with these complex design problems and needs better solutions
faster
than the competition, we can help you.
Recently, important concepts such as Computer
Experiments, Robust
Design, Model-Based
Design and Multi-Disciplinary
Optimisation have rightly
attracted interest as ways forward
in contemporary R&D. As a specialist who introduced these
approaches in Europe, we know how to apply them better than anyone and
our clients reap the benefits of working with a committed leader in the
field. Potential users should be wary of companies whose marketing
overstates their experience and technical competence.
Along with the everyday business of getting exciting
results on projects (here is an
example), we continue to develop state-of-the-art methods
that help keep our clients ahead of the increasingly complex problems
that need to be addressed. This research activity is a fundamental part
of our philosophy and sets us apart from companies offering
‘textbook’ techniques that have lost touch with contemporary problems.
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